Drawn from the wondrous tales told to Kipling as a child by his Indian nurses, "Just So Stories" creates the magical enchantment of the dawn of the world, when animals could talk and think like people.
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The "New York Times Book Review" called Shashi Deshpande's U.S. debut, "austere, philosophical, and rich; a work that . . . grows in moral force and pathos." Deshpande's critical acclaim in India--including three top literary prizes--prefigured the wide recognition abroad of this pivotal novel, now [...]